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Really good article! I think the one point is really valuable. Decision making and who does it. Practically every software engineer will debate SVN vs git; bu
by sleepysysadmin 8y ago
Really good article!
I think the one point is really valuable. Decision making and who does it.
Practically every software engineer will debate SVN vs git; but when someone up the chain decides clear case, that's politics.
Also makes me think, "The Pheonix Project" book. The underlying thing they never really discuss was who made the decisions. I wonder if that's really the root cause.
- jdavis703 8y agoAs someone who has worked on geographically distributed remote teams, I can assure that politics can be just as ugly as in the physical office. In one place I'd say politics was even worse, everything in Slack was as performative as a Twitter exchange on a controversial topic.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoWrong. Who's on which email thread, who's on the conference calls... those can be political choices, and they don't go away just because everyone's working from home. And from those choices flow who has more say in the direction of the company, who's "in" and who's "out", who gets promoted... The only way to have a company with no politics is probably to have no humans.